10-year-old dog returned one week after being swiped from Milwaukee yard

10-year-old dog returned one week after being swiped from Milwaukee yard

Thieves were recorded by surveillance camera

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Updated: 7:10 PM CDT Sep 11, 2017

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WEBVTT rtREPORTER: CYNTHIA WHITE KNEWSOMETHING WAS WRONG WHEN HER DOGBOBO DIDN'T COME RUNNING.>> SO I WENT BACK OUT TO SEE IFHE JrtUST WASN'T ANSWERING ME, ANDI NOTICED THAT THE GARAGE DOORWAS KICKED IN.REPORTER: SHE CHECKED HERSURVEILLANCE CAMERAS AND SAWTHIS. TWO ROBBERS. rtONE JUMPED THE FENCE TO GRAB HERYORKIE BOBO, AND HANDED IT TOTHE OTHER.THEY GRABBED SOME STUFF FROM THEGARAGE BEFORE THEY TOOK OFF INTHIS PONTIAC AZTEC.>> MY KIDS WERE EMOTIONAL, I WASrtA LITTLE EMOTIONAL.REPORTER: WHITE SAYS BOBO IS TENAND BLIND IN ONE EYE.>> HE CAN BARELY SEE. RUNS INTO THINGS. SO HE NEEDS HIS FAMILY TO TAKErtCARE OF HIM. REPORTER: WHITE IS A LIEUTENANTAT THE RACINE FIRE DEPARTMENTAND SAYS SHE WAS ON DUTY THISMORNING WHEN SHE GOT A CALL FROMA WOMAN CLAIMING TO HAVE BOBO.>> SHE JUST SAID TrtHE DOG WAS OUTROAMING AROUND AND SHE GRABBEDHIM AND SHE GAVE ME A CALL. REPORTER: WHITE SAYS SHE WON'TTELL HER DAUGHTERS TILL SHE HASTHE DOG IN HAND.AND SO FAR, SHE'S GOT NO LEADSON THE GUYS WHO TOOK BOBO. rt>> HOPEFULLY THEY GET THEMCAUGHT SOON.REPORTER: NOW SHE'S HOPINGSOMEONE RECOGNIZES THEIRrtPICTURE.IN MILWAUKEE.COLLEEN HENRY.WISN 12 NEWS.KATHY: GREAT NEWS TONIGHT,WITHIN THE HOUR, THE WOMAN WHOCLAIMED TO HAVE FOUND BOBORETURNED HIM TO HIS FAMILY.rtWHAT A HAPPY SCENE THAT IS.POLICE ARE STILL LOOKING FOR THE

10-year-old dog returned one week after being swiped from Milwaukee yard

A 10-year-old Yorkshire Terrier was returned to a Milwaukee family on Monday evening, one week after he was swiped from a yard by thieves who also got away with some items from the garage.

Cynthia White, a lieutenant with the Racine Fire Department, returned to her home on the 5400 block of West Glendale Avenue on the morning of Sept. 4 to discover that her dog, Bobo, was missing.

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"I went back out to see if he just wasn't answering me and I noticed that the garage door was kicked in," White told WISN 12 NEWS on Monday.

In video recorded by White's surveillance camera, two people are seen pulling up to the home. One person climbed over the victim's fence, grabbed Yorkshire Terrier, who is blind in one eye, and handed it to the other thief who then put the pet inside their 2001-2005 white Pontiac Aztek.

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Several items were stolen from inside the garage before the pair of thieves drove off in the Aztek, police said.

While no one has yet been arrested, the family has Bobo back. White said she was on duty early Monday when she received a phone call from a woman claiming to have found him.

"She just said the dog was out roaming around and she grabbed him and she gave me a call," White said before the evening reunion.

Descriptions of the thieves are limited. One was a black male who police said is between 30 and 35 years old. He has a medium complexion, facial hair and long dreadlocks that were pulled into a ponytail. The other person was also a black male who police believe is between 30 and 35 years old. He has a medium complexion, and was last seen wearing a black t-shirt and black shorts with a white stripe.

Anyone with information is asked to call Milwaukee police at 414-935-7271.